Subject: Re: /dev/rom?
To: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
From: Michael R Zucca <mrz5149@cs.rit.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/14/1997 20:03:37
> > How hard would it be to create a MacBSD version of the startup disk control
> > panel?
> 
> Probably not all that hard.  I think that there is simply a PRAM variable
> which determines which SCSI ID to look at for the system.  I just wish
> that MacOS had partition level granularity.  I run System 7.5.5 and System
> 7.1 on my IIci, but I have to have 7.1 on a separate drive in order to
> recognize and use it as a startup disk.  Ah welll.....

Well, you can get finer grain. APS power tools lets you specify which
partition you want to be bootable. My guess is that it reorders the
partition map with the partition you want to boot off of as the
first partition. That's just a guess.

We could do the same with a booter setup.